Berkeley Arts Seminars are small, faculty-led seminars that give UC Berkeley freshmen and sophomores an opportunity to explore the rich array of arts experiences available on our campus. INFORMATION FOR FACULTY When you were an undergraduate, did you have an encounter with the arts that opened your eyes, broadened your
The Connections@Cal option has been discontinued effective fall 2016. Freshman and Sophomore Seminars often result in long-lasting bonds among the participants. Connections at Cal Seminars were created to intentionally foster such relationships, both with a potential faculty mentor and your fellow students. Choose a C@C Seminar if you value sustained
In 1964, Richard Muller, a 20-year-old graduate student with neat-cropped hair, walked into Sproul Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, and joined a mass protest of unprecedented scale. …
Think of it as a crash course in the culture of protest at UC Berkeley, or as an antidote to teenage apathy. A new freshman seminar that combines photojournalism with political awareness was inspired by recent conflicts on campus over rising tuition and funding cuts. It is designed to teach
Call it a visual form of academic introspection. This semester, a new Freshman Seminar, “Photographing History in the Making,” used the campus itself as a source for, and subject of, scholarly inquiry. …
PFA is pleased to cosponsor with UC Berkeley’s Center for Buddhist Studies the film-lecture series Thinking About Not Thinking: Buddhism, Meditation, and Film. Like Film 50, this series is in conjunction with an undergraduate course (offered in the College of Letters & Science Discovery Course program), and is open to
BERKELEY — Italy’s mountains, from the Apennines to the Alps, have fascinated University of California, Berkeley, geologist Walter Alvarez for more than 35 years, resulting in a new book, “The Mountains of Saint Francis,” that traces Italy’s billion-year geologic history with a focus on Italian geologists and their groundbreaking –
Physics has a history of intersecting with politics in ways both large and small, from the creation of the atomic bomb to nuclear meltdowns to terrorist methods. And now, with more specialized, high-tech issues to tackle than ever before, it is increasingly important that world leaders have an understanding of
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives is a book published in 2008 by Thames and Hudson. A product of my teaching an interdisciplinary course, “Archaeology of Sex and Gender”, in Berkeley’s Discovery Course program, the book is an experiment in making archaeological knowledge available to others interested in teaching about sex and
The darkly dressed hooded man – the one with the silver alien hanging from his neck and the deranged eyeball glasses that blinked on and off – suddenly began hurling objects into the crowd. Milky Ways, Starbursts, sticks of Orbit and Eclipse gum. “I’m a black hole, and I’m going